University of Minnesota Alumni Association
 
May-June 2005
Peter Bianco, left, and Bob Elde in the new University Enterprise Laboratory
Peter Bianco, left, and Bob Elde in the new University Enterprise Laboratory
In the May-June 2005 issue you will find stories about University happenings, interesting events and alumni, Gopher sports, and more. Links to stories for which the UMAA owns electronic publishing rights are listed below. Additional articles in the issue include:

Immigration Authority
A profile of Rudolph Vecoli
By Patricia Kelly

Fresh Eyes
Photos by nine freshmmen in the First Year Photo Project

Learning to Tell Time
Time is squandered when we incessantly measure what may be accomplished in it.
Essay by Lindsay Shen


Growing Businesses in a Lab
5/5/2005
Budding entrepreneurs and their startups, many of them spawned from U research, are finding state-of-the-art lab space and practical business support in the new University Enterprise Laboratories. If successful, this incubator could be the start of something very big in bioscience for Minnesota.
By Phil Davies

The Ph.D. and the Northeastern Fisheries
5/5/2005
Charles Burke Elliott, who earned the first Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, in 1888, wrote a dissertation that garnered the kind of acclaim Ph.D. doctoral students dream about.
By Tim Brady

Folk Hero of the Lost World
5/5/2005
Poet Todd Temkin's unobvious choices have led to unanticipated acclaim.

Campus Digest
5/5/2005
Stadium Kick Off, Discoveries, Blue Jays and Impulsiveness, and Strategic Positioning

Letters
5/5/2005
Readers assert that you can trust the government, weigh in on obesity, and more.

Sports Notebook
5/5/2005
It was a Mad March for these five U of M teams.

National President's Column: A Winning Deal
5/5/2005
By Andrea Hjelm, B.S. '65

CEO's Column: A Stadium Deal to Bank On
5/5/2005
By Margaret Sughrue Carlson, Ph.D. '83

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